linux-kernel - RE: O_NONBLOCK setting "leak" outside of a process??

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Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:55:29 -0800
From:	"David Schwartz" <davids@...master.com>
To:	"Philippe Troin" <phil@...i.org>
Cc:	"Denis Vlasenko" <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: O_NONBLOCK setting "leak" outside of a process??

> That's a bug, right? I couldn't find anything to that effect in IEEE
> Std. 1003.1, 2004 Edition...
>
> Ciao,
>                      Roland

It's not a bug, there's no rational alternative. What would two indepedent
file descriptors for the same end of a TCP connection be? What happens when
you call 'dup' on a file descriptor? The behavior is both the only logical
behavior and consistent with other cases where a file descriptor is
split/duplicated.

DS

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